Amarillo police are investigating whether three armed robberies near gaming businesses this week are related.
About 1:10 p.m. Wednesday, officers responded to a call from The Game Room, 1804 S. Bell St.

A Friona man charged with robbing a Parmer County bank Monday wore a black gas mask and eye black when he ordered a teller to turn over money at gunpoint, according to an FBI affidavit. "Don't make a scene.

Police have interviewed about 20 witnesses in connection with a Sunday morning shooting at a northeast Amarillo home that left a 15-year-old with life-threatening injuries, authorities said Monday. Officers found the teenager about 4:20 a.m.

An Amarillo man will spend more than five years in prison and a lifetime on supervised release after a federal judge sentenced him Wednesday on a child pornography charge. James Bradley Taylor, 28, was sentenced to 63 months in prison, according to U.S.

Amarillo residents will have two chances to tell city commissioners whether they support a citywide ban against handheld cellphone use while driving. At their Tuesday work session, commissioners scheduled public comment periods during the Aug.

Nearly 30 years ago, Potter County jurors sent Benjamin Herbert Boyle to death row for killing a 20-year-old hitchhiker. Two years after Boyle's 1997 execution, his Amarillo attorney discovered the case was not over.

For more than three years, an Amarillo orthodontist defrauded Medicaid of more than $1.5 million by performing services he knew were solely cosmetic and scheduling dozens of patients on a daily basis, according to a federal indictment returned Wednesday.

A break-in at a Tennessee nuclear weapons facility has stalled the monthslong review of bids for management and guard contract overhauls at Pantex and the Tennessee plant, according to National Nuclear Security Administration officials.

A Lubbock grand jury has indicted a federal Bureau of Land Management engineer on charges he threatened to kill coworkers and maintained a list of targets at his Amarillo office, according to court records.

The attorney for Texas death row inmate John Balentine tried a third time Monday to halt her client's upcoming execution, according to court records. The filing asks U.S. Magistrate Judge Clinton E. Averitte to stay Balentine's Aug.

The U.S. economy in July climbed out of three months of sluggish hiring to add more than 150,000 new jobs. But that wasn't enough to keep the unemployment rate from inching up to 8.3 percent, according to government data released Friday.

Police arrested two people on drug and other charges Friday after a morning stop in east Amarillo. About midnight, officers spotted William Henry Mullane, 32, pushing a motorcycle in a turn lane at 3800 E. Amarillo Blvd.

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst swung through Amarillo on Saturday as he inched closer to Tuesday's runoff for the U.S. Senate Republican nomination against tea party darling Ted Cruz. The breakfast crowd at Henry D's cafe, 5807 S.W. 45th Ave.

A federal Bureau of Land Management engineer threatened to kill coworkers, maintained a list of targets and "excitedly" proclaimed after the Colorado shooting rampage that the killer "got them," according to court records.

The following are the names, ages, charges and dates of alleged offenses indicted or reindicted July 25, as released Thursday by the Randall County Criminal District Attorney's Office: ■ Christopher Don Flegel, 18, delivery of marijuana, Feb.

The United States flag behind former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz began to droop as he lamented what he described as the country's decline at the hands of a ballooning federal government. "America is falling down," Cruz, 41, said.

Federal lawmakers said Thursday they temporarily halted the U.S. Border Patrol's plan to close four West Texas offices, including its Amarillo station, after legislators pressed the agency about the cost-cutting move.

An Amarillo federal judge sentenced a former mail carrier to five years' probation and ordered him to pay more than $21,000 in restitution for illegally accepting state unemployment compensation while receiving federal disability pay. Jeffrey L.

An emissions monitoring company working for a refinery in Sunray falsified air emissions reports to federal regulators for two years, according to court records.
The Alvin-based Team Industrial Services Inc.

A federal judge sentenced a former Amarillo attorney on Tuesday to nearly three years in prison and ordered him to pay more than $800,000 in restitution for failing to file about 30 years of tax returns.

David Neal Shepard told his roommate details about the murder of Dr. Joseph Sonnier III that only the killer could know, police said.
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VIDEO: Dr. T. Michael Dixon booked into Lubbock jail
FROM THE AJ: Amarillo doctor jailed in Lubbock, accused of murder-for-hire in Sonnier death
FROM THE AJ: Dr. Joseph Sonnier III's children deal with murder of father on 2nd anniversary of mother's murder
DOCUMENTS: Read the original arrest warrant

The Amarillo Economic Development Corp. board unanimously approved a $4.2-million investment Tuesday in a new Bell Helicopter plant where workers will build the 525 Relentless, bringing about 100 jobs to the city.